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Seth Cotlar
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Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://rightlandia.ghost.io/
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Pirro and Mace's entire public persona can be summed up as a pugilistic "suck it libs" attitude...and then they get within 15 feet of Donald Trump and they scramble around on their hands and knees to pick up the hamburger crumbs he dropped on the floor so they can put it under glass in their office.
November 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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The Calvinball conservatism embraced by Trump and his Supreme Court might be super popular with the sickos in the GOP base, but it is wildly unpopular with the 70% of voters who do not fit that description.
November 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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It's good news that the court is not going to be reconsidering Obergefell this term...but the emphasis in that sentence should fall on THIS TERM. There is absolutely no reason to believe that this court won't change its mind in the future, just as they did with Roe.
November 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Kerry McQuisten.
November 9, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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This is great. Thank you. I've used Lazar's FOIA's many times, but this meta search has turned up new stuff regarding Goff.
November 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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This story celebrating the brave Josef Mlot-Mroz and sneering at how those violent radical leftist in the civil rights movement were being coddled by liberal politicians and the liberal media appeared in scores of newspapers across the country. So much for the liberal media, eh?
. Taylor Writes How About National Observance For Mlot-Mroz, Minority of One? BY HENRY J. TAYLOR lutely sure to lead to violence, forced to stand like a stunned It would be nice if Senators at least sent Mlot-Mroz a get- ox waiting for the next blow to Robert and Edward Kennedy well card fall? paid a hospital visit to patriot MINORITY OF ONE Our leadership contemplates Joseph Mot-Miroz, mercilessly They everlastingly drama- healing the world when it is stabbed, beaten and bludgeon- tize their interest in minori- not even decently governing ed in Boston outside the head- ties. Well, Miot-Mroz 1S a the United States. quarters of the Southern minority of one. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH Christian Leadership Confer- The question of how the We had the ghastly march ence while peacefully demon- majority should treat a minor- on the Pentagon. Next we had strating against its Poor Peo- the Washington ple's March on Washington. Now it's a city-burning, "poverty march. One of lone Mlot-Mroz's Yet who is free to inflict what signs read: "For God, Free- may mean organized mayhem dom and Country. Fight Com- on the capital of our country? munism in Vietnam and Red When is enough enough? Stooges at Home." His other Our political leaders are not proclaimed: "I am fighting helpless. They're spineless. poverty. I work! Have you They know full well that such tried it? It works!" demonstrations have nothing whatever to do with the right Cut up and bleeding under the wild attack in the first Taylor of assembly or the right of petition. The Southern Chris- violence of the trek on Wash- ity is fundamental in a free tian Leadership Conference's ington, Miot-Mroz looked, in vain, for help. society. But so is the question declared purpose, echoing the of how a minority should treat late Dr. King, is to force our NUMBER ONE SPONSOR the majority. Are the "rights" government to act under a From Bobby Kennedy's first of demonstrators more impor- condition of duress. And no day as Attorney General he tant t…
November 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Mlot-Mroz even had a "Katie Daviscourt" moment when he attended a Poor Peoples' march and was reportedly attacked by civil rights protesters. This "vicious attack by the radical left" made national news...the only problem was, it was all a lie intended to discredit the civil rights movement.
When the group arrived in Boston, McMillan relates, the march's first trouble erupted. While in Roxbury, & Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) official was addressing the marchers and a crowd of Negroes, when self - styled Polish Freedom Fighter Josef Mlot - Mroz, who had opposed the march since it left Brunswick, grabbed the microphone from the hand of the speaker. "Martin Luther King was & Communist," he shouted to the predominantly Negro audience, in reference to the slain civil rights leader. A negro man, not & marcher, promptly knocked Mlot - Mroz to the pavement, McMillan said. TWO POOR MARCH mar- shals rescued Mlot - Mroz, and took him inside a building, where they told him to remain for his own protection. But moments later he dashed back to the street, again to oppose the aims of the march. This time, McMillan said, within 10 feet of him, Mlot - Mroz told the marchers he'd been hired by the John Birch Society to expose the march. The same Negro man knocked him down again, and when Miot - Mroz got up, slashed him on the side with & small knife. McMillan said marchers took Mot - Mroz to s hospital, where he required two stitches and was released. "The Boston newspapers made it sound as though one of us had stabbed him, without provocation," McMillan said.
November 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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The person who funded Mlot-Mroz's career as a neo-Nazi troll also helped fund the careers of David Duke and William Luther Pierce, the author of The Turner Diaries.
Anti-Semitic beliefs revealed in death Duxbury neighbors learn of millionaire with a complex past By Douglas Belkin GLOBE STAFF DUXBURY - Richard J. Cotter Jr. wasn't your typical Massachusetts millionaire. A bachelor since the 1940s, he lived alone in a 275-year-old estate on Surplus Street. He was worth more than $5 million, but drove a 20-year-old car and didn't own a computer or even a TV set. Though he lived for 40 years on the same street in this seaside town of Colonial homes, neighbors barely knew him. They simply considered Cotter the eccentric next door who liked to ride his horses and be left alone. In death, however, the secrets held by the horseman with old-school ties to Exeter and Harvard have slowly emerged, transforming him into something more complex. Almost two years after Cotter was laid to rest, neighbors learned that the civil law attorney with impeccable establishment credentials was a longtime white su-premacist. Just inside the doors of the stately home that few strangers entered, Cotter displayed wooden eagles from anti-Semitic groups hailing him as their man of the year. His shelves and table tops were stacked with books and pamphlets touting the virtues of white pride and far-right patriotism. His will produced varied bene-ficiaries. He left $25,000 to his favorite waitress at a Quincy diner, and more than $500,000 to help preserve the legacy of the children's book "Peter Rabbit." He left $400,000 to care for his prized American saddle show horses. But then there was the $750,000 doled out in five- and six-figure sums to Holocaust revi-sionists, white supremacist au-thors, and a church that supports extermination of Jews. Cotter's lawyers, meanwhile, confirmed that their client, a onetime Massachusetts assistant state attorney general, had advised and had met repeatedly with leaders of fringe and neo-Nazi groups, over decades. As information about the will surfaced, many along Cotter's tree-lined street wondered how well they know their n…
November 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Here's the tl;dr thesis of that piece on Mlot-Mroz. Like Candace or Jack Posobiec, Mlot-Mroz's goal was to inject the fascistic "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" interpretation of modern politics into the US mainstream by rebranding it as "Patriotic, Christian anti-communism."
STOP COMMUNISM NOM! POLISH FREEDOM FIGHTERS INC. HMUKA (Globe Photo by LeRoy Ryan) FoOd Ee John Bich Society) resident and Confederation of Polish Freedom Fighters. By hosting these various public "awards" events that would then result in a picture and a story in the local paper, Mlot-Mroz and other Nazis like him were trying to normalize and mainstream their white Christian supremacist vision for the nation. They hoped their fellow citizens would consider an America that had been purged of Jews and people of color as just one viable political future amongst many on the buffet line of American politics. This fascistic vision, however, was a complete rejection of the dominant, starting premise of post-WWIl American political culture-that the nation was a secular, multi-racial democracy defined by its commitment to religious and ethnic pluralism. Anyone advocating for that sort of America, Mlot-Mroz argued, was really just advocating for Communism. These fascists offered their fellow Americans a choice between strawberry ice cream and cyanide, and their primary goal was to get the press to talk about the situation as if it was a choice between strawberry ice cream and mint chocolate chip. "Some people say the best way to fight communism is to create a just society for all in which prosperity is widely shared, other people say we should fight communism by eliminating the Jews, sending Black people back to Africa, and abolishing the federal income tax and the federal reserve...ah America, a land of contrasts." Although the fascists knew their political cyanide in its most undiluted form appealed to only a small handful of their fellow Americans, the more watered down, "Christian Patriot" version of it was far more likely to meet with approving (or just neutral) coverage in the press and would thus get a less hostile response from the readers these fascists sought to reach and radicalize with their message.
November 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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If you want to ruin your weekend with a very deep dive into the career of Josef Mlot-Mroz, a precursor to today's trollish, fame seeking sociopaths of the far right, then this piece I wrote a while back is for you. rightlandia.ghost.io/the-anatomy-...
The Anatomy of American Fascism, part 1: Fascist Foot Soldiers and their Patrician Funders
Introducing Jozef Mlot-Mroz, Salem, Massachusetts' most famous Nazi troll (ca. 1960-2000) and the wealthy Exeter/Harvard law grad named Richard J. Cotter who secretly funded his exploits
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November 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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AFAIK Shapiro has never been asked about this, um, interesting choice he made. I suspect he was just in book promotion mode, got an invite onto some show he'd never heard of, and just went for it.
November 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM